From the first I realised that everything depended upon the sermon ... those who came, came exclusively for the sermon. (page 77)
I felt too inadequate to be able to hand on to the congregation with authority, the word of the holy God - for that is what preaching really is. This sense I have retained right up to my old age. (page78)
I had to preach with body, mind and soul as the Apostle Paul says in intimate contact with the congregation, and had to demand something from my congregation.
My principle regarding a sermon has always been quite simple and straight forward. When the wife comes home and the husband asks her (or it may be the other way round, as the case may be) what did he say? She should be able to say quite definitely, he said this.
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Autobiography page 84